That’s their new grassroots-mobilizing gimmick in support of the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill. Rewarding illegals with citizenship flows as naturally and logically from having legal immigrants as ancestors as expanding background checks does from a school shooting committed by a lunatic who stole guns purchased legally by his mother. Follow the link in the tweet and share your “story” to remind Congress that basic border enforcement is for nativist trolls.

Here’s a story. Once upon a time, millions upon millions of immigrants came to America and paid their own way because there was no welfare state. Dan Foster:

[P]ro-amnesty Republicans should admit that their anti-amnesty colleagues raise a legitimate concern, and they should use the debate as an opportunity to strike a compromise: Amend the Gang of Eight bill to include means-testing, market-like competition, and block grants for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, respectively, along with a gradual scaling-back to pre-recession levels for food stamps, unemployment benefits, and the like. Allay the Heritage crowd’s concerns by trading amnesty for significant entitlement reform.

Such a move would for sure bring more Republicans on board, while helping relieve Marco Rubio from the Chuck Schumer–shaped albatross around his neck. It might, it just might, stop the melee on the right long enough to shift the pressure to the Senate Democrats by forcing them to assess their own priorities. And it would revive “grand bargain” talks in a creative and unexpected way, a way that precludes talk of tax increases altogether.

Of course, there is probably one chance in 10,000 that such a “grand bargain” could become law. Likelier, stapling amnesty to entitlement reform would doom “comprehensive immigration reform” entirely. But for those of us who think there is currently more bad than good in the bill, and who prefer a piecemeal approach, that’s quite an acceptable loss.

Right. Ted Cruz is sponsoring an amendment that would permanently bar legalized illegals from receiving welfare, but there’s not a prayer that Mediscare-fearing Republicans would push hard for broader entitlement reform as a condition of amnesty. Remember, the whole point of this grand immigration pander from the GOP’s perspective is to ingratiate itself with Latino voters, and Latino voters tend to support entitlements even more than much of the rest of the entitlement-loving American public does. We’re stuck with the welfare state in its current form (at least until people stop loaning us money), which is one big reason to oppose amnestizing lots of illegals. Justin Green:

[R]ecent arrivals are considerably less educated than they need to be to achieve the American dream. They, their children, and likely their grandchildren will disproportionately rely on the benefits a strong welfare state can provide. In addition, by bringing in these workers, the wage floor for low-skilled labor will remain low, meaning more native born Americans will also need to rely on the welfare state.

Unlike the 20th century, today’s workers will need a college degree — or some other form of advanced training — to attract the lifetime earnings required to raise a family without strong state assistance. That’s not because they’re lazy or indolent. It’s what the market increasingly deems worthy for someone without advanced skills. By bringing in further low skilled immigrants, we’ll only exacerbate an existing problem.

And shockingly, those newly legalized immigrants and their native born low-skilled counterparts are not going to be with you on the crusade to slash the welfare state.

One possible solution is to demystify college degrees as a de facto prerequisite for decent-paying jobs, but The One himself has talked up education beyond high school for all Americans. DrewM asks a good question too: “If low skill workers are the key to prosperity, why do we spend hundreds of billions dollars a year on educations and training programs?” Middle-class American parents spend 18-21 years terrorized by the thought that their children might not finish school and end up with thankless, low-paying jobs — and now they’re being told that bringing in millions of people in that exact situation is nothing but upside for America. You won’t see that story on the White House website.

Here’s the poor sap who got stuck being Team O’s new messaging prop. Better him than five-year-olds, right?

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I do have one Native American ancestor. But most of my mom’s ancestors were here BEFORE there even was a United States – 1630s in both Massachusetts and Virginia. Since there was no United States in those days, I’d say we are native to the country that now exists.

Well of course since Obarky came from somewhere else he would think everyone else did to.

HOWEVER, I was born in Anchorage Alaska, which is part of the US – and was when I was born.
I did not cross any borders illegally to get here.
However, I also have a little Native American lineage, or as I grew up calling them – Indians. As I’ve said before – probably not as much as Senator Fauxcahontas claims, but likely more than she really has.

Team Obama has scores of legal experts..to apparently include Obama…and they still cannot figure out the difference between legal and illegal, documented and undocumented, obtaining a visa, going through the entry process, becoming naturalized…and those who do none of those?

Everyone came from “somewhere else”, you ambulatory brillo pad. The human race most certainly did not originate in what we now recognize as North America.

America’s ancestors weren’t a bunch of skin-wearing tribals who came ashore in a canoe a few hundred years before our European founders landed. Deal with it. And not by importing a grab bag of unskilled, unwashed, unscreened Third-Worlders, either.

Good grief I’m sick of this crap. Native Americans came from somewhere else too, just like everyone else who lives anywhere on earth. And Native Americans did plenty of killing stealing enslaving and sacrificing each other before Europeans showed up. How far back do you want to try to try to trace it to the original inhabitants who got overrun and replaced/absorbed/assimilated by other Indians who got replaced/absorbed yet more other Indians etc.

Or maybe the Obama Campaign thinks all Native Americans are one group who all look the same and know each other too.

This is so ridiculous. He probably has no idea how many Americans have some Indian (let’s be non-PC) lineage. Mine is Cherokee, and my husband’s is Mingo. I also have ancestors who immigrated from England in the 1600′s and early 1700′s.

This is rather insulting. My ancestors were shipwrecked here in the 1600s. My ancestors fought in the revolutionary war. They fought in the civil war. I didn’t “come” here, my family has been here for 400 years. Just because that idiot Kenyan came here when he was a boy doesn’t mean everyone else did.

Well, if we’re to believe anthropologists, man starts around the Tigris\Euphrates and branches out from there, or something like that. So no one is native to America, unless Area 51 docs reveal that the Indians were all beamed down by Scotty.

Everyone came from “somewhere else”, you ambulatory brillo pad. The human race most certainly did not originate in what we now recognize as North America.

America’s ancestors weren’t a bunch of skin-wearing tribals who came ashore in a canoe a few hundred years before our European founders landed. Deal with it. And not by importing a grab bag of unskilled, unwashed, unscreened Third-Worlders, either.

MelonCollie on May 8, 2013 at 8:12 PM

Good point. Even the “Native Americans” originally came over from Asia across the land bridge to Alaska that used to be above water.
AND current archeology/anthropology theory indicates ALL of the human race/species orginated in Africa.
So technically – we’re ALL African-Americans, and African-Europeans, and African-Asians.

I want all the minority preferences and handouts that are due to me – now!!!

My ancestors came to this nation either legally with documentation, or before it was a nation and worked, fought, and bled to make it a nation.

Barack Obama doesn’t have the right to put my law abiding ancestors on a par with opportunists who chose to willfully shatter federal immigration law, thus demonstrating a complete disregard for the rule of law and a clear disdain for the rights of the citizens of this nation.

Barack Obama doesn’t have the right to put LEGAL immigrants, and those millions waiting in line around the world for the opportunity to come here legally, on a par with ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Barack Obama just insulted every law abiding American citizen and our ancestors, as well as all legal immigrants and those who aspire to become legal immigrants.

That’s pretty low, even for him.

He also demonstrated that he has no regard for the rule of law and doesn’t understand the value of the rule of law and is, thus, willing to erode it in order to serve his own flawed ideology.

Sorry, idiot W.H., another stupid blunder: Native Americans came here from somewhere and apparently replaced another population, or at least shared it with them. Trying to create another splinter group?

I tire of this stupidity.
BTW, I’m 1/16 N.A. My dad looked like Chief Dan George for those can remember his roles with Clint Eastwood.

Archeological sites in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina (SF#125) dating back 15,000-18,000 years demonstrate that the ocean-going Solutreans had footholds in the Americas 3,0006,000 years before Asian landlubbers trekked into Alaska.

Who Were The First Americans?
Stefan Lovgren
for National Geographic News
September 3, 2003

A study of skulls excavated from the tip of Baja California in Mexico suggests that the first Americans may not have been the ancestors of today’s Amerindians, but another people who came from Southeast Asia and the southern Pacific area.

The question of who colonized the Americas, and when, has long been hotly debated. Traditionally, Native Americans are believed to have descended from northeast Asia, arriving over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska some 12,000 years ago and then migrating across North and South America.

But recent research, including the Baja California study, indicates that the initial settlement of the continent was instead driven by Southeast Asians who occupied Australia 60,000 years ago and then expanded into the Americas about 13,500 years ago, prior to Mongoloid people arriving from northeast….. Asia

Why is it if someone climbs the fence at the border, we’re supposed to ignore it, but if someone climbs the White House Fence, they get tackled and cuffed? They’re just on an undocumented tour, right Mr. President?

“Unless you’re a Native American, you came from someplace else”
and therefore ,
US citizenship and
welfare ,food-stamps , medicaid and free everything are your civil rights.
Right Obama’ s Moochanty and Drunkel ?

“I came here with my brother, then we blew people to bits, and later I ran him over with a stolen car.”

#WeDontKnowWhoIsHereNow

Bishop on May 8, 2013 at 8:22 PM

I came here with my parents , then I infiltrated the US Military , then I gunned down 14 and injured many others, screaming allahuakbar at the base where I worked. My BFF was an American called Awlaki.

I am a native American! My DNA may have come mostly from Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavian, but I am neither German nor Swiss nor Scandinavian. I lived in the E.U. for six years, I love the Europeans as my friends, and I even married a European; but I am American and only American. Native American. As we’d say in Latin for “I was born here”, hic natus sum.

NO one should be rewarded with citizenship for thoroughly demonstrating that they are possessed of a complete disregard for the rule of law and a clear disdain for the rights of the citizens and legal immigrants of this nation.

Probably the entire length of the bill if all the 400 waivers, extensions, and exemptions, and all of the pork for home states of certain senators ( like…but certainly not limited to… ski instructors and snowboard instructors for Colorado and cheap labor for South Carolina and Lindsey Graham) would be cut down to those same few pages that Mike Lee has proposed.

I’m from here , the U.S.A, you doofus!
In the tale of whoa that is the BoxHead lineage; Those distant relatives that left whatever country to get here LEFT THAT COUNTRY to get here! My loyalty is to this country before any others (and to a few things before country).

According to archeologists, even”native” Americans came from somewhere else. The “native American” found in Washington state was caucasian, but the native American Indians thew a hissy fit so no one would know.

[*PG313]NATIVE AMERICAN FREE PASSAGE RIGHTS UNDER THE 1794 JAY TREATY: SURVIVAL UNDER UNITED STATES STATUTORY LAW AND CANADIAN COMMON LAW

Abstract:

Since 1794, Native American groups in both the United States (U.S.) and Canada have enjoyed the right of “free passage” across the U.S.-Canadian border per the provisions of the Jay Treaty.

However, development and recognition of this right have taken decidedly different courses:

while the U.S. has treated the right very liberally under statutory codification,

the Canadian government has opted to develop, and restrict, the right under their courts’ common law. This Note discusses the origin and development of the “free passage” right under the Jay Treaty, and encourages both the continued recognition of the right, as well as a stronger Canadian common law effort to harmonize treatment of the right with U.S. jurisprudence.

Introduction

In 1794, following the American Revolution, the United States and Great Britain signed an agreement entitled the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation (the Jay Treaty).

1 In addition to post-war normalization of relations between the two countries, the treaty also extended and acknowledged various

rights of Amerind tribal groups occupying areas on or near the U.S.-Canadian border.

2 Most significantly,

the treaty stated that Indians on either side of the border

would retain the right to move freely back and forth

across the border, the so-called “free passage” right.3
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The Us had tougher visa restrictions than are contained in this bill that were passed 17 years ago… they simply weren’t enforced.Likewise some 600 miles of double fencing was ordered… and only 30 miles have been constructed. If Obama administration hasn’t enforced these laws so far, why would we believe they’d enforce any new laws in the future?

Likewise, much is being made on the left regarding how much new tax revenue the government might expect from all those new legal residents. IF they came here illegally, lived and worked here illegally in some cases for years breaking any law that was inconvenient to them including stolen identity and fraudulent identification, and then were roundly rewarded for shattering every law they found inconvenient, what makes the government think they bother to pay taxes?